Duncan Hunter: “E-loran is the only cost-effective backup for national needs. It is completely interoperable with and independent of…”

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

Yes, it is just short of $5 billion a year.

How can you possibly stay on track with that kind of a cut?

I would hope there is crossover. All the lessons learned and the billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan over the last decade, the people that have been doing that there transferring their knowledge and capability to you.